Friday’s swimming results: Northampton boys, girls open with wins

The Northampton boys and girls swimming teams enjoyed highly successful meets to open the season Friday afternoon at JFK Middle School.

The Hamp girls won every event in defeating West Springfield 137-41, while the boys took all but two events in a 92-73 victory over the Terriers.

Freshman newcomer Stephanie Jordan took first in a pair of individual events and was a part of two winning relays for the Blue Devils (1-0). She won the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:23.11, then came in first in the 500 freestyle at 5:47.29.

Kerry Fleming and freshman Erin Voss also earned an individual victory each and participated in winning relays.

For the boys (1-0), Colin Machat, Reeves Connolly and Aidan Winn each took first in a pair of events. Machat won the 200 free (1:53.43) and the 100 free (50.1), Connolly the 200 IM (2:22.13) and 500 free (5:28.6), and Winn the 100 fly (59.03) and the 100 back (59.47).

In the Belchertown girls’ 90-86 loss to Holyoke Catholic, Bryanna Veroneau set a school record in the 100 fly at 1:02.85.

The young Hopkins Academy boys basketball team wasted little time getting its first win of the season. And in the process, the Golden Hawks snapped a long losing streak. Hopkins beat Smith Vocational 54-45 in Hadley Friday, ending its 25-game losing streak with a season-opening victory. “This is the way we wanted to start the season,” Hopkins coach Tom Bell …